Product from Loose Ends (India)
Via Artnlight
This is a great green gift packaging in the form of ‘coconut zipper’. Open the zip put your delicate of surprises in and be sure it is going to reach intact!
Recycle green too! What you say?
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bridges that you built
When I wrote in my earlier post that staircases fascinate me to no end, it was only half the story. Add bridges to it.
?Click here & listen to heart rendering song ‘bridges’ by Tracy Chapman while
you go through the post.?
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Bridges and staircases fascinate me to no end. And I am on an ever going tour of finding out how to incorporate these two elements in my small home.
Sounds crazy? Isn’t it! It is possible to have elements of staircase in decor at least; but bridges!
While you shake your head and mutter some words related to crazy or disbelief; I want to prove I am not alone in my ‘impossible sounding dream world.’
lintel
Matthias Pliessnig, Wisconsin, USA based designer is very 
famous for bending wood to his will! And making sculptural furniture pieces out of this bent wood. Wood
becomes elastic in his hands. Many of us remember him by his creation
‘pierce’ ?
He uses coopering techniques and boat building techniques to 
achieve compound curves.When you see these ‘bridge’ benches you can imagine that I could not have done anything else but jump up and down.
a deviated path
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pink for breast cancer awareness
Pink- for breast cancer awareness –
Pink in Indian women’s attire – the saree and salwar kameez for day to day wear and lehnga choli reserved for a little special occasion.
the saree
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the lehnga choli
the salwar kameez (batik)
(Images via livinggallery, esareestore, Indiangarment)
green bin
What is your inspiration? A chewing gum, a bicycle chain or just plain sugar.
London based designer Anna Bullus not only takes inspiration from these everyday things but also uses them as mediums!
She invents and crafts new products from these materials, products which are fun, clever and environment friendly!
bubble gum bin
Anna Bullus has invented a new material from used chewing gum and bio resin for making a bubble gum bin called Gumnetic. This bin collects raw material in the form of discarded chewing gum which is then used to make more bins!
bubble gum bin
Keep reading to see her sugar inspired cup and bicycle chain inspired furniture…
mud slinging
↑For no reason this is my mood today ↓! What design is drawn?
This beautiful photograph is courtesy lens of Sunder Iyer. A post on his amazing talent a little later.
modern twist to traditional craft
I have never seen such cotemporary renderings of a traditional art and craft.
The modern twist to Bidri work is simply stunning.
The art of inlaying silver in a dark metal is called Bidri.
The designers Suryaprakash Gowda and Vikram Sardesai are among those who define modern Indian lines.
Bidri candle stands
Bidri plates
These Indian designers based in Bengaluru, with their dedicated team under the name of Design Core India take lacquer work, stone inlay and Bidri work from traditional Indian handicraft and adapt it in such a way that the final product becomes breath-taking!
Bidri candle holders and trays
Bidri Keychains
Elegance of these stone inlay work is indesciable ?
stone inlay plates
stone inlay plates
While you are on their website do not miss lacquer work . Their recycled products are a different story altogether. I am doing that but a little later.
To know actual process of Bidri work (in detail) and links to traditional Bidri work keep reading…